A Semantic and Structural Analysis of te-no Noun Phrases in Japanese

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  • テノ名詞句の意味と形式
  • テノ メイシク ノ イミ ト ケイシキ

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This paper describes noun phrases that include a te-clause (called “te-no noun phrases”) from the following three viewpoints: (1) characteristics of the modified noun, (2) meaning and usage of the te-clause, and (3) meaning of the te-no noun phrases. First, the head nouns in these noun phrases can be classified into “predicative nouns” and “non-predicative nouns,” based on morphological criteria. Predicative noun snot only have a structure parallel to verb phrases but also have structural restrictions on the occurrence of the te-clause with in the noun phrase. On the other hand, non-predicative nouns do not show such a parallelism; they have a relation of modification between the te-clause and the head noun, similar to the non-case relational relative clause in Teramura's (1977) sense. This paper also finds that a schema of temporal development can be extracted from these noun phrases, which can be reduced to a general meaning of te-clauses.

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